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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

I achieved my goal by not my aim. That happens a lot, we honestly translate aims to goals. And then we do stupid things in the name of the goal get it the way of the aim. We forget the aim sometimes and put the goal in its place. Mike Tveite, Achieving goals but failing to achieve the aim.

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